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1) Virals
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses...
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"When a bitter former partner wants revenge on wealthy computer mogul Brad Weston, he releases a powerful computer virus that soon takes on a mind of its own. What was supposed to only destroy computer terminals evolves into a deadly entity that worms its waythrough the entire city causing wide spread panic and destruction. Now its up to Brad and his computer savvy son, Dylan, to find the source and figure out a way to stop this virtual but very real...
Author
Series
Welcome to the stone age volume 1
Publisher
S.A. Ison
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Which is more deadly, a computer virus or biological virus? What happens when both hit? Kelly, Randal, Larry, and Stephen don't know each other and they have nothing in common. They don't even live in the same cities, yet they will all come to the same conclusion, life is over as they know it. Nothing has prepared anyone for the unimaginable hell that is about to crash into their lives. How strong is their will to live? Time will tell."--adapted...
9) Virus
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus offers an unprecedented look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life on Earth--from humans and other animals to insects, plants, fungi, and bacteria....
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Frank Hartman, a virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a geneticist who has discovered how to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diana O'Toole has a plan: be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the...
17) Computer viruses
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...